157 news posts in Neuroscience

Neuroscience

24 Jul 2017

Elderly yoginis have greater cortical thickness

Elderly female yoga practitioners have greater cortical thickness in the left prefrontal cortex, suggesting that yoga may protect against cognitive decline.

Neuroscience

18 Jul 2017

Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do

Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? New study has found that human morality can be modeled.

Neuroscience

18 Jul 2017

Creating music by thought alone

Neurologists have created a hands-free, thought-controlled musical instrument, which they’ve recently described in a report in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Neuroscience

13 Jul 2017

Menstruation doesn’t change how your brain works — period

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience study suggests that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle have no impact on aspects of cognition

Neuroscience

06 Jul 2017

Treating autism by targeting the gut

Therapies to change the bacteria in the gut, through diet, pro-and prebiotic supplements, faecal matter transplants or antibiotics, could treat autism.

Neuroscience

05 Jul 2017

Video games can change your brain

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience review article outlines structural brain changes caused by video games

Neuroscience

14 Jun 2017

Creating human super intelligence: winner of Spotlight Award 2017

Superintelligence: fact or fiction. First Frontiers Spotlight Award Winner for outstanding research into human brain augmentation

Neuroscience

12 Jun 2017

Blue Brain Team Discovers a Multi-Dimensional Universe in Brain Networks

Using mathematics in a novel way in neuroscience, the Blue Brain Project shows that the brain operates on many dimensions, not just the three dimensions that we are accustomed to

Neuroscience

23 May 2017

Time is not ‘one size fits all’

New research, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience makes the case against fixed starting times, i.e. a fixed one-size-fits-all daily routine.

Neuroscience

23 May 2017

In trying to teach kids about the brain, researchers ended up learning about themselves

The research, published in Frontiers for Young Minds, focuses on early-life nutrition and how that influences brain development, using pigs as a human proxy.

Neuroscience

19 May 2017

Study sheds light on link between diseases like Alzheimer’s and normal aging in the brain

New study opens up new area of preventative research for diseases like Alzheimer’s: Targeting age-dependent protein aggregates as possible therapeutic targets.

Neuroscience

19 May 2017

Shaping your brain with exercise, video games and more

This Research Topic, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, investigates cognitive training techniques in health and disease, and in youth and old age.